A Prospect on How to Find the Polarity of a Financial News by Keeping an Objective Standpoint - Position Paper

Roxana Bersan, Dimitrios Kampas, Christoph Schommer

2013

Abstract

This position paper raises the question on how we can keep an independent standpoint regarding the finding of a polarity in a news document. As we know, an usefulness and relevance of a text news may be seen differently by a group of evaluators. The differences are depending on their interests, their knowledge, and/or their ability to understand. Recent research in literature mostly follow a top-down approach, which is either a context-based solution or a dictionary-based approach. With respect to the perspective (standpoint) of an evaluator, we therefore come up with an alternative approach, which is bottom-up and which tends to overcome the power of a single evaluator. The idea is to introduce a collection of theme-related artificial agents (financial, economic, or political, . . . ), which are able to vote. A decision regarding the polarity of a financial news bases on the interplay of a social collection of agents (a swarm), which serve and assist the artificial agents while fulfilling simple (linguistic, statistical) tasks.

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Bersan R., Kampas D. and Schommer C. (2013). A Prospect on How to Find the Polarity of a Financial News by Keeping an Objective Standpoint - Position Paper . In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART, ISBN 978-989-8565-38-9, pages 172-177. DOI: 10.5220/0004191601720177


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@conference{icaart13,
author={Roxana Bersan and Dimitrios Kampas and Christoph Schommer},
title={A Prospect on How to Find the Polarity of a Financial News by Keeping an Objective Standpoint - Position Paper},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART,},
year={2013},
pages={172-177},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004191601720177},
isbn={978-989-8565-38-9},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART,
TI - A Prospect on How to Find the Polarity of a Financial News by Keeping an Objective Standpoint - Position Paper
SN - 978-989-8565-38-9
AU - Bersan R.
AU - Kampas D.
AU - Schommer C.
PY - 2013
SP - 172
EP - 177
DO - 10.5220/0004191601720177